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UPDATE: McDonald's Is 10th Company to Pull KRXQ Advertising

GLAAD just posted a recap of its activity relating to KRXQ and its offensive comments against transgender children. The summary also included a statement from AT&T announcing their decision to pull its advertising from the radio station. You can find all of that plus recent media coverage here.

Minutes after posting our recap, I received an email from McDonald's at 9:17pm EST. Soon after I spoke with a member of the McDonald's Public Relations team who wanted us to post and distribute their statement.

McDonald's wrote:

McDonald's has a proud legacy of diversity and inclusion. The views expressed by the hosts are not consistent with our core values.

As such, we are in the process of withdrawing advertising from KRXQ until further notice.

McDonald's USA LLC, Pacific Sierra Region

The global fast food chain now becomes the tenth company to either retract or to not renew its advertising contract with KRXQ.

The entire listing of companies include:

Chipotle

Snapple

Sonic

Bank of America

Verizon

Carl’s Jr (CKE Restaurants)

Wells Fargo

Nissan North America

AT&T

McDonald's

We continue urging people to voice their concerns with the radio station. Information can be found here.

Stay tuned for more details. Please check back with us for updates on this developing story.

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